Winter Olympics

1. Medal Counts over Time

For this task I have calculated and arranged the top countries based on (Gold, Silver and Bronze)medals won from 1924 to 2014. - We find out that Canada has won most number of Gold medals, USA most number of Silver medals and Finland Most number of Bronze Medals.

• Different IOC names of Germany were merged together
• Russian Union Divided into 13 countries in 1992, so the IOC code URS for sovient Union has not been merged with Russia code RUS. Data for both of these codes have been represented individually.

2. Medal Counts adjusted by Population, GDP

For this I chose Points = 3(Gold) + 2(Silver) + 1(Bronze) as valid method to Rank Teams.

• We find out that Canada has most number of points but when we consider points won per GDP of the country Russia comes out on top.

• Lietchtenstein is the top country we consider Points per population due to its low 37,000 population.

3. Host Country Advantage

If a country won more percentage of medals(Medals won by country in that year/Total number of medals in that year) in its host year as compared to other terms, then we can say that country was with home advantage.

But we see that on one hand countries can be said as they enjoy home advantage, it is not true for all the host nations.

• USA Hosted Winter Olympics in 1932,1960,1980,2002 so it can be seen by there trend that they had more share of total medals everytime they hosted the olympics as compared to previous term. Most noticebly in 1932 when they won aroung 40% of the total medals.

• Germany Hosted Olympics in 1936 but in that year they had only 6.4 percent of the total medal share, whereas in the year 1976 when Austria Hosted the Olympics they has 30.4 percent of the share.

4. Country success by sport / discipline / event

1. Most number of medals won in Ice hockey is by Canada 14 Mens and 5 Womens Medals, closely followed by United States With 10 Mens and 5 Womens Medals.

2. Largest number of medals won in any Sport is by Norway in Skiing more than 200 medals.

Bonus Point : In making this graph, data wrangling has been done as such that multiple medal distributed in team events are counted as one.

5. Most successful athletes

1. Most Succesfull male athlete of winter olympics is Ole Einar from Norway.

2. Most Successful female athlete of all time in winter olympics is Stefania Belmondo who participated in skiing.

6. Making plots interactive

I choose to make following plots interactive:

• Host Nations Medal Percentage share trend : The Graph itself has line trend for all the host nation till 2014. So making it interactive will enable user to see trend of a particular host nation with much less distraction.
• Sportwise Medal Distribution of Countries : The plot showed cumulative distribution of medal count of countries. By making it interactive user can find additional information like medal count of those countries in individual Event.

7. Data Table

This data Table can be used to find out things like which country won a medal in a particlar event in winter olympics or How many events USA has medal in etc.